About the role
<p><strong>Location:</strong> Portugal (Remote anywhere in Portugal)</p> <p><strong>Department:</strong> Engineering</p> <p><strong><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">Employment Type: </span></strong><span class="notion-enable-hover" data-token-index="0">Permanent</span></p> <h3><strong>About YLD:</strong></h3> <p>Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.</p> <h3>About the role:</h3> <p>As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.</p> <h3>About you:</h3> <p>A YLD Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've built pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context.</p> <p>You have a real passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems.</p> <h3>Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:</h3> <ul> <li>Delivering data work on client engagements: pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them</li> <li>Adapting to different client contexts, legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, struggling transformation layers that need rescuing</li> <li>Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review</li> <li>Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company</li> <li>Showing up for client team moments (internal speakers, learning sessions, social events) to build strong working relationships.</li> <li>Contributing to propo